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Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and

Aunt Sam — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:43:17 +0000

In reply to I was reel happy that someone

Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry,

When the boys came out to play

Georgie Porgie ran away.

I needed a George, and you've

Anonymous PP — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:29:07 +0000

In reply to I was reel happy that someone

I needed a George, and you've already run your 2 terms. George Clooney? George Michaels? Certainly not George Stephanopoulos.

I was reel happy that someone

The Decider — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:24:53 +0000

In reply to Romney for President

I was reel happy that someone was writing a pro Romney article but, dang it, you got the wrong one. George isn't running.

Another good book to check

Peter Schwartz — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:04:12 +0000

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Another good book to check out--not as good as Blowing Smoke, but still good--is Invisible Hands, by Fein.

Really lays out the whole emergence of the conservative resurgence from the 1940s through to "today."

Just trying to playfully go

Anonymous PP — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:03:14 +0000

In reply to Don't know what you're

Just trying to playfully go along with the what-if sci-fi tip you brought up, not "arguing" nor "smoking".

Guess you really are intent on being grumpy. Never mind.

Don't know what you're

rmrd0000 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:57:58 +0000

In reply to Note: actually, the whales

Don't know what you're smoking', but at this point enjoy arguing with yourself. Try counting to 10 (or 100) and take a deep breath. Calm down.

Have a nice day.Later.

Note: actually, the whales

Anonymous PP — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:47:51 +0000

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Note: actually, the whales did make it off the planet, only because some passing Samaritan in a spaceship thought the "Save the Whales" t-shirts were pretty good souvenirs for his high school kids back home. Unfortunately, he had to reduce the whales down to the size of sardines to fit on the ship, but if you go visit him, you'll find he's made a whole series of albums of beautiful whale songs, which if translated from not whalese but a poor desperate heavily-accented attempt to speak Esperanto, say "get us the fuck out of here... and what's with the awful oily fish smell?"

Okay, I was trying to take it

Anonymous PP — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:40:25 +0000

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Okay, I was trying to take it easy to not set off paroxysms of horror, but having Gandhi show up as a crack-smoking break dancer in Seattle wearing plaid and living on Castle "sliders" is as easy to roll off the fingers as say Rush Limbaugh getting Rachel Maddow and Jane Hamsher to agree to a threesome while singing the Internationale to the tune of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus". Or finding out Challenger was really equipped as a Soylent Green ship, only Charlton Heston's son brought it down with a shoulder-based rocket launcher, both denying Io it's next trendy foreign food sensation, but also ensuring no escape route from global warming, so in the end we're all deep-fried anyway.

Hey, let's start a what-if Civil War post!!! Wouldn't that be exciting!!!

Sigh. You are obviously

rmrd0000 — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:23:11 +0000

In reply to Aha, I see, mea culpa. Yes,

Sigh. You are obviously unaware the alternate history is an accepted subgroup of Science Fiction literature. Titles like "The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century" and "The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories" are among the selections. Elvis is elected President and JFK survives the 1963 Dallas shooting in "The Way It Wasn't". You scenarios are not beyond the pale.

I have read stories depicting Gandhi as an armed freedom fighter and MLK as the person who shot JFK because the alternate King felt Kennedy was too slow in addressing Civil a Rights issues.

Our imaginations allow us to place historical figures in positions that agree with our hopes, or reveal how disappointed we would be in where our historical heroes wound up.

Weyrich in particular seems

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:29:40 +0000

In reply to It started with two guys

Weyrich in particular seems awful and effective. Thanks.